Gordon Episcopal Chapel and Parsonage, Fochabers

]] The church was built at a cost of £900 from 1832 to 1834, according to a design by the noted Scottish architect Archibald Simpson, who was responsible for the construction of many of the notable buildings in nearby Aberdeen. The building was paid for by Elizabeth Brodie, wife of the fifth Duke of Gordon. Gordon Castle, which was the principal seat of the Dukes of Gordon, is near Fochabers, but only partly survives. The first-floor chapel was dedicated on 12 August 1834, some three months after a school had opened on the ground floor of the building, in the space that was later to become the parsonage. Elizabeth Brodie was an Episcopalian at the time the church was built, but since she…

The building is a two-level gothic design, with the parsonage (originally a school) on the ground floor and the chapel itself on the floor above that. It is oriented north–south, with the main entrance, leading onto Castle Street, on the south end produced by Morris and Co, some designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. ]] <gallery widths="80px"> File:GordonChapel, StUrsula.jpg|St Ursula, commemorating Frances Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond File:GordonChapel, StRaphael.jpg|Raphael, giving thanks for the return of Gordon-Lennox family members from the Boer War File:GordonChapel, StMichael.jpg|Michael, commemorating Lord Bernard Gordon-Lennox File:GordonChapel, StAndrew.jpg|St Andrew,…